Holder Spude Catherine (89 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, this book traces the efforts of Skagway's boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation.

Condition: Very Good. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! May have signs of use, wear and minor cosmetic defects.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, this book traces the efforts of Skagway's boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New hardcover book, first edition, 2015.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original hardcover in jacket, SIGNED by Spude (signature only), this is the first printing. 326 pages, index, a few historical b + w photographs. Book is solid, bright, and square with minimal wear. Very nice. L3. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in very good condition, one lightly bumped corner, else fine. DJ in fine condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New hardcover book, first edition, 2012. In stock.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women's political and economic power in the West. Where most books about vice in the West depict a rambunctious sin-scape, this one addresses money and politics. Focusing on the ambitions and resources of individual prostitutes and madams, landlords and saloon owners, lawmen, politicians, and reformers, Spude brings issues of gender and class to life in a place and time when vice equaled money and money controlled politics. Women of all classes learned how to manipulate both money and politics, ultimately deciding how to practice and regulate individual freedoms. As Progressive reforms swept America in the early twentieth century, middle-class women in Skagway won power, Spude shows, at the expense of the values and vices of the working-class men who had dominated the population in the town's earliest days. Reform began when a citizens' committee purged Skagway of card sharks and con men in 1898, and culminated when middle-class businessmen sided with their wives-giving them the power to vote-and in the process banned gambling, prostitution, and saloons. Today, a century after the era Spude describes, Skagway's tourist industry perpetuates the stereotypes of good times in saloons and bordellos. This book instead takes readers inside Skagway's real dens of iniquity, before and after their demise, and depicts frontier Skagway and its people as they really were. It will open the eyes of historians and tourists alike.…

Cloth & Bds. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. D.j., 276 pp., illus., photos, map, index. SIGNED. The author deconstucts the legend of Soapy Smith as a hero or martyr and shows him as the con man and robber that he really was.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 357pp. Green trade paperback, VG, list of references cited, index, b&w photographs, figures and tables, maps, no names or markings in text, collection of seventeen essays, Study of the towns, trails and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of 20th century gold mining sites in Alaska and the Yukon. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: n/a. Ex-library copy with red library stamps on the front cover and title page, a call number label on the lower spine, and a library pocket with a checkout card on the inside front cover. Handwritten notations in ink and pencil are present on the front cover and the margin of the title page. The covers show light edge wear and a small sticker residue mark on the front. The binding is firm and the internal pages are clean.…

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women's political and economic power in the West. Where most books about vice in the West depict a rambunctious sin-scape, this one addresses money and politics. Focusing on the ambitions and resources of individual prostitutes and madams, landlords and saloon owners, lawmen, politicians, and reformers, Spude brings issues of gender and class to life in a place and time when vice equaled money and money controlled politics. Women of all classes learned how to manipulate both money and politics, ultimately deciding how to practice and regulate individual freedoms. As Progressive reforms swept America in the early twentieth century, middle-class women in Skagway won power, Spude shows, at the expense of the values and vices of the working-class men who had dominated the population in the town's earliest days. Reform began when a citizens' committee purged Skagway of card sharks and con men in 1898, and culminated when middle-class businessmen sided with their wives - giving them the power to vote - and in the process banned gambling, prostitution, and saloons. Today, a century after the era Spude describes, Skagway's tourist industry perpetuates the stereotypes of good times in saloons and bordellos. This book instead takes readers inside Skagway's real dens of iniquity, before and after their demise, and depicts frontier Skagway and its people as they really were. It will open the eyes of historians and tourists alike.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine paperback. Clean and bright, with no signs of wear or aging. 358 pp.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: good. Supports Goodwill of Silicon Valley job training programs. The cover and pages are in Good condition! Any other included accessories are also in Good condition showing use. Use can include some highlighting and writing, page and cover creases as well as other types visible wear.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. "that Fiend in Hell": Soapy Smith in Legend. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too - among them Jefferson Randolph ""Soapy"" Smith (1860-98), who with an entourage of ""bunco-men"" conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the ""uncrowned king of Skagway,"" remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in '98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game.With Smith's death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in ""That Fiend in Hell"": Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith's elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary ""boss of Skagway,"" nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth.But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway's boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith's death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway's economic interests. Spude's engaging deconstruction of Soapy's story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. 2012. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . .